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I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
Age: 54
Climate Activist
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San Francisco County
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Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.
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.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.
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When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
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At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
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When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
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There is something in me maybe someday to be written now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.
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